https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The European Commission responded that the EU had been 'a boon' for the United States after President Donald Trump claimed it had been born to 'screw' the US, laying bare his hostility to the longtime US partners as he detailed new tariffs. https://www.thelocal.de/20250227/europeans-hit-back-after-donald-trump-says-eu-was-born-to-screw-us Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:27:39 +0100 europeans-hit-back-after-donald-trump-says-eu-was-born-to-screw-us Donald Trump hasn't even moved back into the White House -- but the volatile US president-elect has already rattled his counterparts in Europe. https://www.thelocal.de/20250110/dont-add-fuel-to-fire-europe-tries-to-play-it-cool-as-storm-trump-approaches Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:04:26 +0100 dont-add-fuel-to-fire-europe-tries-to-play-it-cool-as-storm-trump-approaches "Trust in Trump's America is gone." The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become "irrelevant", new polling finds. https://www.thelocal.de/20200629/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-europeans-views-of-the-us-and-the-eu Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:22:08 +0200 how-the-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-europeans-views-of-the-us-and-the-eu The greatest source of German angst are the policies of US President Donald Trump, according to an insurance company's survey of the deepest fears plaguing the country's people. https://www.thelocal.de/20180906/trump-the-greatest-source-of-german-angst-survey Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:28:30 +0200 trump-the-greatest-source-of-german-angst-survey According to the Institute of Economic Research (IfO), Germany will have the biggest account surplus in the world for the third successive year in 2018. It is not only Donald Trump who is irritated by the country’s export-heavy economy. https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/german-trade-surplus-still-largest-in-the-world Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:40:28 +0200 german-trade-surplus-still-largest-in-the-world Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) has said that Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran is a “mistake”, and warned that isolation of the country could lead to “chaos”. https://www.thelocal.de/20180808/germany-will-fight-for-iran-deal-says-maas Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:14:31 +0200 germany-will-fight-for-iran-deal-says-maas Germany’s defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump, saying that the US president is a man without a plan. https://www.thelocal.de/20180727/trump-has-no-strategy-says-german-defence-minister Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:08:10 +0200 trump-has-no-strategy-says-german-defence-minister US President Donald Trump partly "destroyed" Washington's trusting relationship with Europe by pulling out of a joint communique after the G7 summit, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20180610/trump-destroys-trust-with-g7-tweets-germany Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:03:37 +0200 trump-destroys-trust-with-g7-tweets-germany The G7 summit ended in farce and a renewed threat of global trade war on Saturday as US President Donald Trump abruptly rejected the text of a consensus statement and bitterly insulted the Canadian host. https://www.thelocal.de/20180610/trump-trade-fury-torpedoes-canadas-g7-summit Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:16:35 +0200 trump-trade-fury-torpedoes-canadas-g7-summit US President Donald Trump’s comments blaming “both sides” for deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville were a “huge mistake”, says Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel. https://www.thelocal.de/20170817/donald-trump-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-not-condemning-far-right-says-germanys-foreign-minister-sigmar-gabriel Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:41:33 +0200 donald-trump-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-not-condemning-far-right-says-germanys-foreign-minister-sigmar-gabriel Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that she opposed any use of force to resolve the conflict with North Korea, after President Donald Trump said the US military was "locked and loaded". https://www.thelocal.de/20170811/merkel-condemns-verbal-escalation-with-north-korea-after-trump-tweets Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:15:38 +0200 merkel-condemns-verbal-escalation-with-north-korea-after-trump-tweets Angela Merkel's main rival in the upcoming election opened up this week in an interview about the balance between freedom and security, as well as about what Europe's military strategy should be. https://www.thelocal.de/20170809/europe-must-not-follow-trumps-military-build-up-logic-a-chat-with-merkels-main-election-rival Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:04:43 +0200 europe-must-not-follow-trumps-military-build-up-logic-a-chat-with-merkels-main-election-rival Germany on Wednesday urged North Korea and the United States to show "restraint" after apocalyptic threats from President Donald Trump and Pyongyang in their mounting war of words. https://www.thelocal.de/20170809/germany-urges-restraint-from-north-korea-trump Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:50:58 +0200 germany-urges-restraint-from-north-korea-trump German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a TV interview that though he is "irritated" about a lot of things happening under US President Donald Trump, he still has hope for the transatlantic relationship. https://www.thelocal.de/20170724/german-president-irritated-with-how-trumps-presidency-is-going Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:23:28 +0200 german-president-irritated-with-how-trumps-presidency-is-going President Donald Trump's harsh criticism of Germany's trade practices is sowing concerns in rural, Republican Alabama, where Mercedes-Benz has been an economic engine for two decades. https://www.thelocal.de/20170614/trumps-harsh-trade-talk-on-germany-worries-mercedes-alabama-home Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:58:59 +0200 trumps-harsh-trade-talk-on-germany-worries-mercedes-alabama-home US President Donald Trump reportedly struggled at first to find a place to stay on his first official visit to Germany. But the Hamburg city government has come to his rescue, German media report. https://www.thelocal.de/20170609/trump-finally-finds-place-to-stay-in-hamburg-for-g20-summit Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:29:15 +0200 trump-finally-finds-place-to-stay-in-hamburg-for-g20-summit Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday accused US President Donald Trump of stirring up conflicts in the Middle East and risking a new arms race as Qatar's neighbours cut ties with Doha. https://www.thelocal.de/20170607/merkels-deputy-warns-of-trumpification-of-middle-east-relations Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:09:35 +0200 merkels-deputy-warns-of-trumpification-of-middle-east-relations The German and French defence ministers said on Thursday they were certain about the US commitment to NATO despite President Donald Trump's recent failure to publicly endorse its collective defence pledge. https://www.thelocal.de/20170602/germany-certain-trump-would-honour-nato-pledges Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:46:37 +0200 germany-certain-trump-would-honour-nato-pledges Germans had some creative ways of expressing their disapproval of the US President’s decision to pull out of an international agreement to fight climate change. https://www.thelocal.de/20170602/earth-to-trump-fk-you-how-germany-reacted-to-trumps-climate-pact-withdrawal Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:21:31 +0200 earth-to-trump-fk-you-how-germany-reacted-to-trumps-climate-pact-withdrawal Continental Europe's three biggest economies - Germany, France and Italy - criticized Donald Trump's decision Thursday to quit the Paris climate agreement and said the pact was "not renegotiable." https://www.thelocal.de/20170601/germany-says-climate-pact-not-renegotiable-after-trump-pulls-out Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:14:09 +0200 germany-says-climate-pact-not-renegotiable-after-trump-pulls-out